I expect that many of you seasoned travelers regularly use in-flight WiFi but I had not tried it before an Expedia cross-country recruiting trip I took last month. WiFi provider Gogo was in the news a few weeks ago with its announcement of a new faster service (to be launched next year) so I thought…
Shakespeare’s Juliet famously asked “What’s in a name?” My answer is: if you’re trying to build an online startup or personal brand: a lot! Take my own online brand as a case study. I started this blog in April 2012. Like many people starting a new online presence, I agonized over what to call my new…
Anticipatory Assistants • Focus on: Social, Reviews, Tours, Innovation Blockers, Air Distribution, Space Travel • 180 Travel Briefs • Awesome Travel Photos • Tech Briefs • I Write Like… Editor’s Note I’ve been very busy with my day job, helping to deliver a next-generation travel search and booking site and it has been far too…
Sometimes a blogger’s hand is forced and he has to put out a certain post. I had been thinking out loud for the past couple of weeks that I ought to post a True Geek’s gift guide as a response to all the tech gift guides that hit the web this time of year. The…
Full Contents MS Surface Pricing • Passwords are Weak Security • Anarchist Hacker • Not Mobile First • Video Release Dates • Google App$ • S.E.C is Old-school • 60 Tech Briefs • Just 3 More Microsoft Surface Pro Positioning Drives Pricing I was asked to comment on Microsoft’s pricing of the Surface Pro over at Quibb.com. My comment…
While preparing a recent blog post, I was researching Google travel search results. I was appalled to find that a user searching for hotels in a popular market like New York City could easily miss seeing any organic search results. Organic search results are the ones deemed most relevant to your query by Google’s search…
Big Name Facebook Pages that Oppose Relevance Filters are Wrong Businesses, non-profits and celebrities promote themselves on Facebook by setting up branded pages. Fans of these entities follow them by “liking” those pages. As a Facebook follower, you might think that by liking a page, you will see every update to it in your newsfeed.…
The man responsible for turning Microsoft Office into a perpetually winning franchise and delivering Windows 7 and 8 on time after the train wreck that was Longhorn/Vista is leaving Microsoft. This is a Good Thing. Sinofsky can build a plan and execute on it like no one else but he is also very inflexible. He…
Contents Gadget Overdose • Microsoft Surface • Hurricane Sandy • Apple Shake-up • Global Consumer Analyses • Security • Build Your Own Servers • Tech Briefs • Just Two More Gadget Overdose: A Big Week for Tech Product Launches The past week has been a big one for product launches. As TechCrunch notes, it was…
The AeroQuad quad-rotor featured in this video was named as one of the 6 Top Robots of Maker Faire. Read about all 6 robots at the bottom of this post. Google Trying to Preempt EU Anti-Trust Action but Critics Not Impressed If you’ve used Google for a hotel search recently, you’ve probably seen Google’s Hotel…
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